{"id":69551,"date":"2018-12-20T11:00:08","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T17:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=69551"},"modified":"2018-12-20T07:16:41","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T13:16:41","slug":"a-fools-errand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=69551","title":{"rendered":"A Fool&#8217;s Errand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Well, the Trump administration is making moves to ban &#8220;bump stocks&#8221; &#8211; mechanical devices that speed up semi-automatic firing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;ll have an effect on firearm homicides &#8211; right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What do you think?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PVfwFP_RwTQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And it&#8217;s not limited to ARs.   Other firearms, down through handguns, can be jury rigged to &#8220;bump fire&#8221;.  Not that you&#8217;d want to &#8211; it&#8217;s a great way to burn up money and hit nothing you&#8217;re shooting at.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, the good news is that they have no intention of stopping with this utterly meaningless result. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wait&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the Trump administration is making moves to ban &#8220;bump stocks&#8221; &#8211; mechanical devices that speed up semi-automatic firing. That&#8217;ll have an effect on firearm homicides &#8211; right? What do you think? And it&#8217;s not limited to ARs. Other firearms, down through handguns, can be jury rigged to &#8220;bump fire&#8221;. Not that you&#8217;d want to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69551"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69553,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69551\/revisions\/69553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}